Bush and Kerry both chose Ohio for their stage at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, traditionally viewed as the kickoff for the fall campaign.

"They promised to create 6 million jobs, and guess what? They're about 7 million short," said Kerry, who also criticized the administration's new 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums. "They can't come here to Akron or to any other place in America and talk to you about all the jobs that they created, because they haven't," he added.

A few miles up Interstate 77 outside Cleveland, Bush conceded the state has "pockets of unemployment that are unacceptable."

At the same time, he said, "the economy is strong and getting stronger," and accused his Democratic rival of proposing tax increases that would crimp the economy. "He's not going to be taxing anybody in '05, because he's not going to win," the president added quickly to applause from his supporters in Broadview Heights. "We're going to win Ohio and we're going to win the country."

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) (REAR) is saluted by a veteran during a rally in Steubenville, Ohio, September 4, 2004. It is Kerry's last stop on his two-day bus tour of the critical battleground state of Ohio, heading into the November 2 election. REUTERS/Jim Young US ELECTION

who are unemployed and have given up looking for work or what about those who have found work but still have NO healyth insurance and are not making anything close to what they were making before....Bush is heartless!

All these things that are WRONG... the unemployment, the rising college costs, etc. etc. That ASSHOLE never talked about them or acknowledged they were a problem until NOW. Sure, I will laugh at the crap and know there is no sincerity there. But, what about other people. Some who haven't been paying attention will think he's really saying something meaningful. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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